How many w members own a Hymer?

2007 T674GT. I've only ever seen one other one and that was a British registered one spotted in France.
Based in Berkshire.
 
Our fridge went to fridge heaven in 2014, van is 2051 plate. Had a gas leak. Luckily it was still in dealers warranty, unlucky they said small print said max £500 for one item. So £1500 for fridge and £120 to fit minus £500. A shock I can tell you ?. Happily I found the correct one new on eBay for £900. Dealer stated they has to buy from a certain supplier (not sure about that one). So he sent me a cheque for £500 and kindly said it would be easier for me to have it fitted closer to home. Wasn't he considerate. In fact I contacted the same fitter he used who charged me half the price dealer was charging and in the end bought the old fudge off me. In the end I paid £400 instead of £1120. Not a bad result
 
wakk44 said:
The fridge does seem to be the perennial problem with older vans if you look at the posts on here and other forums.I have had a new burner and igniter box on mine.Fortunately they can be repaired quite easily which is good because the price of a new one is pretty steep.
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To be fair, I don't think it had ever been serviced since the van was new as it did not look like it been taken out before. Its been quite good over the last year so fingers crossed :dance:

Keith
 
1999 S700.......drives like a dream.
winters.......south coast of Sicily
summers..... Scottish highlands
I'm pretty badly disabled from a stroke,
whole left side is buggered.....no matter....
my big Hymie practically drives itself.
2.9TD Mercedes.....auto box...... love it.
 
Seems like a lot of w****** own Hymers









I meant wilders of course....but I'm sure you knew that😉
 
silverweed said:
I don't think it has to be taken out to be serviced
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It depends on the installation, mine has to be taken out to be serviced because the bottom vent is underneath not on the back panel, a lot of Hymers are like that because of the fridge position at the back, because of the rear bumper they don't have a normal lower vent which can be taken off to service the fridge
 
Hymer E510 here, great van, about 18yrs old.
Love it, same problem with the fridge on gas though, very poor.
I wonder if it is due to the high ventilation panel on this model, about 4 ft above the fridge, maybe flue can get flagged up too easily.
Other than that a great van, only ever seen 1 more E510, that was some French in Spain, they had a new fridge😕
We are thinking to getting a leccy fridge but only have an 80w panel with two leisure batteries, anyone got previous on these fridges?
 
On my second Hymer an Exsis I562 on a 2010 2.2 Transit. It has a Gaslow system,140w solar panel. Its first trip out was to Glastonbury 2 weeks after picking it up from the dealers/importers
 
Just got 2006 B654 Legend 25 - our first moho.
Seems to be very few. It was an anniversary model.
Had two longish trips in it. Everything's fine but the oven is useless.
We use a cast iron Dutch oven on the HIV instead
We are in Norwich
 
tezza33 said:
It depends on the installation, mine has to be taken out to be serviced because the bottom vent is underneath not on the back panel, a lot of Hymers are like that because of the fridge position at the back, because of the rear bumper they don't have a normal lower vent which can be taken off to service the fridge
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Mine too. You can get to the lower vent with the rear bumper removed though that's not a 5 min job and access is still restricted. First time the fridge failed I wanted to check properly so I took it out to run it on the bench. Second time I cleaned the jet with bumper removed.

Keith
 
Mine is a 2002 B564, had it 4 yrs. Has the roomy end bathroom/dressing room also has quite a generous kitchen work surface. The usual ones have an L shaped seat but ours is just a straight bench seat with pull ot section to make it a small double bed.
I stay in the Scottish borders and retired here two and a half years ago and in the process of renovating cottage.......so haven't really been out and about much in the hymie. It has been in garage for last 3 weeks awaiting brake cable replacement (al-ko part).....obviously coming on the slow boat from Germany.:mad1:
 

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ChrisInNotts said:
Mine too. You can get to the lower vent with the rear bumper removed though that's not a 5 min job and access is still restricted. First time the fridge failed I wanted to check properly so I took it out to run it on the bench. Second time I cleaned the jet with bumper removed.

Keith
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When I remove my fridge I can see a cutout where the vent would be but it hasn't been cut out of the external panel just the woodwork inside, it wouldn't take much work to cut it out just the aluminium skin and I have considered it but maybe next year:eek:
 
I've got an oblong panel to the o s r above the bumper,when ar the st,Andrews meet my fridge was tricky to start/run on gas,came home unscrewed the panel and removed the jet/ ignighter etc.cleaned and blew out reassembled and sealed and fitted the panel back on all in all saved a few hundred quid as I was getting quoted,also told it's a mare to do,done it in an hour,working abso brilliant now,
 
A Weinsberg Komet 1997, during those long, dark winter nights, its what your Hymer dreams of :dnd:
 
The laird said:
I've got an oblong panel to the o s r above the bumper,when ar the st,Andrews meet my fridge was tricky to start/run on gas,came home unscrewed the panel and removed the jet/ ignighter etc.cleaned and blew out reassembled and sealed and fitted the panel back on all in all saved a few hundred quid as I was getting quoted,also told it's a mare to do,done it in an hour,working abso brilliant now,
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Mine is covered by the bumper but you can see the cut out from the inside when the fridge is removed, probably easier toremove the bumper than the fridge so it is on the cards for the hole to be cut and a plate made to cover it
 
New rear springs

Just fitted two new heavy duty rear springs( Jones international) brilliant service,the differance is great..at present I have not inflated the air bags since job done as the drive is awesome,anyone thinks that the rear is getting low on veh with age should consider this.
If you mention the wild club Carl is thinkng on giving us a discount,ordered on Friday arrived tues complete with new u bolts ,and painted to colour requested.
 
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I have a 1979 S580 and a 1988 S700, currently parked up at Playa de la Higuerica in Murcia in the 700 :cool:
 
Drove up the A1 to Scotland and gave every mh I saw a friendly wave - not one of them waved back - was it because I was in a Hyundai? :lol-049::lol-049:
 
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